Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been formally elected as leader of the National Democratic Alliance or NDA at a meet of the victorious BJP-led alliance in the central hall of parliament today. Leaders of the NDA one by one spoke in the central hall and supported the move to elect PM Modi. The PM was also elected as the leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party.

Rahul Gandhi, speaking at the meeting of the Congress's top decision making body today, insisted that he did not want to continue as party president after its debacle in the national election. He remained firm on his decision to resign even after the party unanimously rejected it.

Incidents of violence were reported from across West Bengal on Saturday in which one person died and many were injured, officials said, as a face-off brewed between the ruling Trinamool Congress and a surging BJP after the Lok Sabha results were declared.

Three of the 20 students who died in a massive fire at a commercial complex in Gujarat's Surat on Friday had appeared for the Class 12th Board exams and cleared them comfortably, as per results that were declared today.

Mamata Banerjee, speaking to the media for the first time since the results of the national election, has said that she "does not want to continue as the chief minister" of West Bengal. "The party (Trinamool Congress) has not accepted my decision," she said.

Mamata Banerjee, addressing her first press conference after her party's national election setback in Bengal, said she did not want to continue as Chief Minister and had told her Trinamool Congress that.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump have agreed to meet at the G-20 Summit in Japan next month as both the leaders pledged to further strengthen the US-India strategic partnership and build on the achievements of the last two years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who led his party to a massive win in the Lok Sabha elections, on Saturday addressed the newly elected parliamentarians of the National Democratic Alliance. Many senior leaders have also been invited to the event. The BJP has won 303 of the 542 Lok Sabha seats that went to polls. The Congress is reduced to 52 seats.